Of all the ways we need rainforest which are the most important?

Answer 1

The oxygen they produce of course, but there are complex interrelationships between rain forests and the sea that are just starting to be understood. There really is an web of life, if we chop holes in the wrong places, other parts fail until eventually the whole system fails to recover.


For most of the earth's history, the atmosphere was one that would kill humans outright, and the dominant life form was algae.

Nature will always survive but the tenuous web that allows an oxidizing atmosphere and free water could easily fail.

One strange effect of global warming will be heavy cloud cover, this will result in eventual cooling with the seas which moderate so much of the earth's weather chilling and the ocean currents failing. Bacteria that produce hydrogen sulfide thrive in cold still waters, and in time the seas will boil poisonous gasses into the atmosphere causing another of the periodic mass extinctions. Most plant and animal life on land and sea will die, and eventually when things stabilize, there will be another cast of characters ruling the globe.

Answer 2

I would the trees in the rainforest.

Answer 3

the rain forest provides the majority of oxygen for this planet. plants are the primary source for medicines and only around 2% of the plant species in the rain forests have been tested for medicinal uses

Answer 4

A source of O2, a sink for CO2, habitat for unique animals, a source of drugs.

Answer 5

Cooling! ;-)=